That very afternoon I sought out the builders and laid out my requirements for a storage warehouse. We picked out a vacant parcel of land within the s...ttlement walls and marked out the dimensions together. The builder promised he would enlist some assistance and begin the construction at once.My next task was to visit the forge and discuss its possible additional uses with the metalworker. He confirmed for me that the forge was seldom in use and indeed he would welcome gainful employment in the. Jen looked back at me cheerfully and I said, "Yeah, Jen let me vent for a while last night too. She helped cheer me up. I guess she gets that from you mom." Jen's smile beamed at me and she turned back around to tend the waffle iron.Mom smiled proudly at Jen and said, "Well, I could only hope I'm partly responsible for what a fine, young woman she has become!"Mom cracked another egg to add to the fresh batch of batter she was preparing, but the egg cracked unevenly and the liquid dribbled down. He and his mother barely talk now. When they do it’s with anger and hurt in their voices. We rode through that family like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and I thought he deserved to know why.”“I’d sure as hell like to know why, too,” Hailey grumbled.Tiffany spent the next quarter hour explaining her observations and the theory she had developed. Hailey listened quietly, nodding at some points and shaking her head at others.“Some of it is true,” she admitted at the end. “I don’t know that. I mean, we had our own house, in a decent neighborhood and there was food on the table every day. My parents were tough disciplinarians who redefined the meaning of tough love. Oh, yeah. They believed in corporal punishment. It toughened me up and helped shape me into the man I am today. I fly back to Atlanta to visit my folks all the time. My father is retired from the police force. He manages a private Boxing Gym these days. My mother still teaches, though only part-time. She enjoys being a.